Hi,
I have a use-case where I needed to forward declare some records.
The FPC documentation
<https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refse16.html> says "Note that
a forward type declaration is only possible with pointer types and
classes, not with other types".
I wonder why? Is there any technical difference between classes and
records for the purpose of forward declaration?
My use-case was to define a few records like the following:
type
TData = record
....
function ToA: TA;
end;
TA = record
Data: TData;
....
end;
I know I can define classes instead of record, but I do not want to do
so, since I need to "Free" the objects.
Amir
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